Woven pile fabric.



W. LA. MINIFIE.

WOVEN PILE FABRIC.

`APPLIoATIolsr FILED PEB. e, 1909.

923,682. Patented June 1, 1909.

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I strains rnrnrrr WILLIAM ALLEN MINIFIE, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW JERSEY,ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM H.

BEATTIE, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW JERSEY.

WOVEN PILE FABRIC.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. MINIME, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Little Falls, in the county of Passaic and State ofNew Jersey, have inventedfa new and Improved Woven Pile Fabric, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to tapestry, Brussels or velvet carpets or rugs,and its object is to provide a woven pile fabric in which the pile tuftsare securely leld in place and an exceedingly strong and durable bodyweave is provided to insure long life of the fabric when in use. Inorder to attain this result use is made of a stufier chain, upper andlower filling shots, pile tufts held on the upper filling shots andpairs of binding threads for the said Elling shots, the binding threadsin each pair passing simultaneously around one set of filling shots andsingly around the other lling shots.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

Figure 1 is an enlarged longitudinal section of the fabric; Fig. 2 is atransverse section of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. l; Fig. 3 is anenlarged longitudinal section of a modified form of the improved fabric;and Fig. 4 is a cross section of the saine on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Over the stuffer chain A pass the upper filling shots B, on which arelooped the pile tufts C, clamped in place on the stuifer chain A by theupper filling shots B, as plainly in* dicated in the drawings. Lowerfilling shots D extend under the stufier chain A and are arrangedalternately relative to the upper filling shots B, as plainly indicatedin Fig. l, and the said upper and lower filling shots B and D areengaged by pairs of binding Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led February 6, 1909.

Patented June 1, 1909.

Serial No. 476,364.

threads E and E, which pass simultaneously over each upper filling shotB and singly and alternately under the lower filling shots D, but thisarrangement may be reversed, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4., in which thebinding threads E2 and E3 pass simultaneously around the lower fillingshots D, and singly and alternately around the upper filling shots B,extending across the top of the stuffer chain A and carrying the piletufts C.

By the arrangement described an exceedingly strong and durable fabricbody is proe vided, and the pile tufts C are securely held in place bythe upper filling shots B clamping the loops of the pile tufts O ontothe stuffer chain A.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1 l. A woven pile fabric, comprising a stuffer chain, upper fillingshots extending over the said stuffer chain, lower filling shotsextending under the said stuffer chain, pile tufts on the upper fillingshots, and a pair of binding threads passing around each one of thefilling shots of one set of the said filling shots, and passing singlyand alternately around the other set of filling shots.

2. A woven pile fabric, comprising a stuffer chain, upper filling shotsextending over the said stuffer chain, lower filling shots passing underthe stuffer chain, pile tufts looped lon the upper filling shots, andbinding threads passing around each of' the said upper filling shots andsingly and alternately around the lower filling shots.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM ALLEN MINIFIE.

Witnesses:

ROBERT BEATTIE, Jr., Jos. OUFFE.

